- The `AdvancedAuditing` feature gate that graduated to GA in `v1.12` (and was unconditionally
  enabled) has been removed. ([#118763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118763), [@Shubham82](https://github.com/Shubham82))

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#### What this PR does / why we need it:

  - Windows Server Container support
  - CRI for pluggable container runtimes
  - `kubelet` API supports authentication and authorization

## Features

Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo.  Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community)

- **API Machinery**

- Add a StorageVersionAPI feature gate that makes API server update storageversions before serving certain write requests. 
  This feature allows the storage migrator to manage storage migration for built-in resources. 

- Generic ephemeral volumes, a new alpha feature under the `GenericEphemeralVolume` feature gate, provide a more flexible alternative to `EmptyDir` volumes: as with `EmptyDir`, volumes are created and deleted for each pod automatically by Kubernetes. But because the normal provisioning process is used (`PersistentVolumeClaim`), storage can be provided by third-party storage vendors and all of the usual volume features work. Volumes don't need to be empt; for example, restoring...

- The `VolumeSnapshotDataSource` feature gate that is GA since v1.20 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#101531](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101531), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Storage]

### Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA

The generic ephemeral volume feature moved to GA in 1.23.
This feature allows any existing storage driver that supports dynamic provisioning to be used as an ephemeral volume with the volume’s lifecycle bound to the Pod.
All StorageClass parameters for volume provisioning and all features supported with PersistentVolumeClaims are supported.

- Features:

  - The following features are now GA, and the associated feature gates are deprecated and will be removed in v1.17:
    - `GCERegionalPersistentDisk` (since 1.15.0)
    - `CustomResourcePublishOpenAPI`
    - `CustomResourceSubresources`
    - `CustomResourceValidation`
    - `CustomResourceWebhookConversion`

- Migrate statefulset files to structured logging ([#106109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106109), [@h4ghhh](https://github.com/h4ghhh))
- Refactor kubelet command line for enabling features and "drop `RuntimeClass` feature gate" if present. Note that this feature has been on by default since 1.14 and was GA'ed in 1.20. ([#106882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106882), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

tes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-storage/596-csi-inline-volumes) feature allows CSI volumes to be specified directly in the pod specification for ephemeral use cases. They can be used to inject arbitrary states, such as configuration, secrets, identity, variables or similar information, directly inside pods using a mounted volume. This was initially introduced in 1.15 as an alpha feature, and it moved to GA. This feature is used by some CSI drivers such as the [secret-store CSI driver](http...